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- SOA economics: addressing 'boundary costs'
- Who's going to pay for this SOA? Often, the costs of handling and processing SOA-based services gets spread all over the map. This has implications as SOAs grow in scale and complexity. Oracle's Dave Chappell discusses the matter of "boundary costs" as part of...
- Blog posts 2009-06-19
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- With virtualization, a way to wrangle mobile data costs in the enterprise
- Are you an IT pro who's tired of rising mobile bills? Does incorporating personal smartphones under the enterprise security umbrella keep you up at night? Bob Tinker may have a solution. Tinker, chief executive of mobile enterprise solutions provider MobileIron, is...
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- 10 data center paradoxes -- out of complexity comes simplicity
- For every action there is an equally potent reaction, and that is certainly the case in IT developments we've been seeing as of late. Call them paradoxes if you will, and I just published some of them in an article for Database Trends & Applications on the...
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Cloud computing and open source face-off
- Cloud computing remains one of the big topics in software this year despite considerable and ongoing concerns over lock-in, lack of control, and security. The siren song of ease-of-development, reduced costs, highly elastic scalability, and next-generation architectures has many in IT and in the Web community carefully weighing the...
- Blog posts 2009-06-14
- Microsoft's fancy footwork around netbooks continues
- Microsoft's fancy footwork around netbooks continuesRE: Microsoft's fancy footwork around netbooks continuesThe problem is that everyone uses the term "netbook" but nobody can agree what one is. Is it defined by price? Size? Screen size? Processor power? Intended use? Form factor? Keyboard pitch? 3G/4G radio?Without agreement on terms, there's no...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-10
- Oracle Beehive Activity Starts Buzzing
- David Gilmour, senior vice president, Collaboration Technologies, Oracle. Oracle Beehive, which quietly launched a year ago this month, and was more noisily celebrated at last fall's OpenWorld, has some additional new functionality updates announced this week. "As organizations rely increasingly...
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- Can Australia's government really bring fiber to the home?
- Can Australia's government really bring fiber to the home?Wonderful for AustraliaJust imagine not having to deal with Comcast, and having real, actual, broadband without a fascist corporation looking at all your packets.Bass ackwardsThat said Australia?s concept?form a government-private sector joint venture and then make it totally private when the network...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-07
- Escape Communications Selects Flynn Systems' OnTAP Embedded JTAG Solution
- Escape Communications of Torrance, CA (www.escapecom.com), a trusted provider of point-to-point microwave radio Indoor Units IDUs for commercial telecommunications OEMs and custom advanced signal processing designs for major space and defense contractors, sought to improve their physical user interface for testing, especially during the manufacturing process. Having already developed a...
- Case studies 2009-04-07
- Don't even imagine the oil age is over
- A new report by the U.S. Interior Department gives great support to those who say, "Drill, baby, drill." The report shows how little we really know about how much oil is, or isn't, under the oceans within 200 miles of the U.S. mainland. That would be the Atlantic,...
- Blog posts 2009-04-03
- Botnets and illicit file swapping: the original "cloud computing"
- The primary motives that are being cited for cloud computing, such as lower operational cost, scalability to elastic demand, and high availability, have all been addressed before in the underground. Have you ever heard of this thing called "Cloud Computing"? I have, and apparently it is...
- Blog posts 2009-03-13
- Enterprise 2.0: innovation is the name of the game
- I'm at the Microsoft FastForward conference in Las Vegas, and seeing and hearing quite a bit about the growing movement to open up enterprises and drive greater innovation with Enterprise 2.0. Here are some observations: There's what I call it the LIFT phenomenon -- Linked In, Facebook,...
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
- Polk Audio DSW Pro 400 - subwoofer
- When it comes to subwoofers, Polk Audio has at least four product lines with models in the sub-$600 price range (including some below just $200). After reviewing 8-inch models in the Monitor and PSW Series--the PSW10 and PSW111, respectively--we decided to check out the equivalent model in the DSW Pro...
- Product reviews 2008-09-26
- How do we address the have-nots?
- How do we address the have-nots?It's the NetThe problem is no longer the availability of hardware: many computers are being dumped that can easily be made productive again, by installing a lean Linux on it like Xubuntu. So poor people can have a fine computer for free. That's easy to...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Can mini-notebooks meet teacher needs, too?
- Now that HP has introduced its underpowered, yet fairly compelling Mini-note to the growing market of ultra low-cost PCs ULCPs and Dell is soon to get in on the act, one has to ask if the computers originally targeted at young students can actually satisfy teacher needs as well. ...
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- The purloined benchmark
- Last Wednesday I challenged Windows proponents to demonstrate a metric not based on market share which when fairly applied showed an advantage for Windows over Unix. Nobody took me up on it, but frequent contributor "ShadeTree" suggested that Windows would win with metrics based...
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- Google's secret home-brew 10 gigE switch
- Google's secret home-brew 10 gigE switchWhy would google's custom switch. built for internal use...affect the pricing of switches ???"he Storage Bits takeGoogle's focus on power is paying dividends for the entire industry today. Their focus on cheap, high-speed networking will also drive 10 gigE down the price curve faster than...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-19
- More MP3 player market data says Microsoft's Zune won't be shaving my head at CES
- So far, I haven't heard back from Microsoft president Robbie Bach about my open challenge to him. In case you missed it, I caught a story where he said that Microsoft would be ranked #2 in the portable digital media player PDMP market by the time this year's holidays...
- Blog posts 2007-10-05
- Canon PowerShot SD950 IS
- Sometimes, when we find ourselves running full speed forward toward what we think is the pinnacle of achievement, we suddenly realize that we've flown closer to the sun than our wings can stand. In the current state of market-driven capitalism, we do this constantly, but luckily, our high-flying, boundary-pushing experiments...
- Product reviews 2007-09-19
- A robotic Meridian to fly over the poles
- The Meridian unmanned aerial vehicle UAV is a single-engine research aircraft with fixed landing gear designed by engineers at the University of Kansas. According to Technology Review, it will be used to see what happens beneath the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. Two units are currently built for a cost...
- Blog posts 2007-09-16
- Reuse of code is the key to keeping IBM from being a 500,000-employee company
- Nice piece in the The New York Times today about how IBM is again re-inventing itself as the "blended IT provider." Those are my words. IBM is seeking the means to blend talents, technologies, locations, approaches, people-process, and -- above all -- applications and services.After attending a few IBM conferences...
- Blog posts 2007-07-05
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